Chapter 481: Qiao Mu Private High School

The whole school was in an uproar.

"This man is not ......" Mu Sicheng looked at the young yet slightly familiar face in the stands, nodded and frowned, "Who was it again? Have I seen him before?"

Tang Er hit also wrinkled his eyebrows.

Lu Yizhan, isn't this Bai Liu's friend? How did he appear in the game as an NPC?

--Is it the same as the Rose Factory situation before?

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi gave a start when they saw the face, turned to Bai Liu, and didn't say anything.

Bai Liu looked calm, did not say anything.

The principal, furious, tried to climb up and yank Lu Yizhan down, "What are you talking about, Lu Yizhan! Get down here!"

Lu Yizhan deftly dodged the approaching principal as he darted in skillful circles around the bleachers with his microphone in hand, reading from his own script at the same time:

"These seventeen students were all students who improved to the top one hundred on one of their senior year exams, went up the mountain and then came back down ......"

Mu Sicheng frowned at the question, "What does it mean to go up a mountain and then come down?"

Lu Yizhan's voice reading from the script gradually overlapped with Bai Liu's voice explaining calmly below:

"The students at that place on the hill at Qiao Mu High School are mobile and are judged based on their scores on each test, and the top one hundred students on each test get to go up there."

"Going up the mountain and then coming back down means that these seventeen students were not in the top one hundred before, but on one of the exams, weekly exams or monthly exams by chance they got into the top one hundred and managed to go up the mountain, but on one of the exams after that they fell out of the top one hundred of the whole school so they came back down the mountain again."

Liu Jiayi sensed something and she turned her head over, "You know this school well, Bai Liu."

"This school isn't supposed to be your high school, is it?"

The other four gave a lurch and jerked their heads around to look at Bai Liu , Bai Liu had no expression even on his face, he didn't say a word as he looked at Lu Yizhan who was playing chase with the principal on the bleachers.

In the stands, the principal was storming after him, Lu Yizhan was dodging and escaping in front of him as if he were hanging on to a monster, and the sound of his reading was getting louder and clearer:

"Although it was verified by the police that the seventeen students did indeed commit suicide, a series of deaths in one place after another is never without reason."

"All people have the instinct to survive, and when seventeen people in the same environment transgress their instincts and choose to die, there must exist some reason that forces them to have to escape from the environment that makes it impossible for them to survive at the cost of death."

Offstage, Liu Jiayi walked up to Bai Liu, she looked him straight in the eye and questioned, "This copy landed in your high school didn't it? What happened in your high school?"

"What was the relationship between these seventeen dead students and you?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, he raised his eyes, "There weren't seventeen dead."

"Not a single person died in my high school, and this copy failed to land."

"The landing failed?!" Tang Er hit looked at Bai Liu in consternation, "How could any copy fail to land without the intervention of a strong external force?"

--The previous failed Rose Factory and Ice Age landings were barely contained by mobilizing almost the entire Heretic Authority, with some deaths and injuries.

Tang Er hit clearly remembered that this Qiao Mu private high school was not in the Heresy Handling Bureau's records, which meant that the Heresy Management Bureau had not come here to deal with the heresy, and this copy had failed to land on its own without a single person dying.

How is that possible?

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "One person prevented this copy from landing."

"One person prevented a copy from landing?!" Tang Er hit back almost incredulously, "And without any casualties?!"

"Uh-huh." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids as he looked into the stands, "He won't let innocent people die on his own watch."

"He's such a lousy person."

Lu Yizhan and the tired principal were on the diagonal of the stands, and a group of people gathered around the principal's side to try to catch Lu Yizhan, but Lu Yizhan was too agile to run for so little as twenty minutes without even being caught by the corner of his shirt.

The students on the stage have begun to rise up, many students are laughing at the same time a change of running around, and Lu Yizhan's actions, several teachers can not control the behavior of these students, the field suddenly into a chaotic, and the students are not the same as Lu Yizhan's actions.

On stage, Lu Yizhan, without blushing or gasping, held up the microphone and negotiated with the group of teachers with a proper smile, "When a school lets seventeen kids choose to end their lives, there must be something very wrong with that school."

"These are children who went up the mountain and then came back down before committing suicide... Have you ever thought, principals and teachers, that maybe it's not these seventeen children who are the problem, but this mountain?"

"The problem with the mountain?" Mu Ke sensitively caught the meaning of Lu Yizhan's words, "Is there some kind of game clue on that mountain?"

"You could say there is." Bai Liu said faintly.

"What's on the mountain?" Liu Jiayi deadpanned Bai Liu, "Did you guess how to pass this copy?"

"I've got a rough guess on how I can clear this copy in seven days." Bai Liu spoke flatly and explained, "When I was in high school, our school had a very strange school legend."

"What campus legend?" Mu Sicheng asked.

The principal in the stands gasped as he asked coldly in return, "These seventeen students committed suicide on their own, what could they have to do with anything on the mountain?"

Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan turned their heads at the same time, both of them looking towards the dark and deep mountain that stood behind the campus, their gazes falling on the top of the mountain, their voices gradually overlapping:

"Gaucho Lake on the Hill."

The principal's expression was so intense that he changed as if he had been exposed, and he rebuked with a stern look, "What kind of lake is the university entrance examination? It's just a nice artificial lake, it's just a bullshit rumor made up by some students! Lu Yizhan, don't spread rumors!"

Mu Sicheng curiously followed up with, "Gao Gao Lake, what is it?"

"An artificial lake at Qiao Mu Private High School, up on the mountain." Bai Liu explained without skipping a beat, "I haven't been there to see it, but people who have been up there say it's a very beautiful artificial lake, right in the middle of the mountain, that reflects the moon."

"The reason why this man-made lake is shouted as the college entrance examination lake is because it is said that every senior student who passes the examination, as long as on a moonlit and cloudless night, when the moon is reflected in the middle of the lake, walk alone around the edge of that lake three times front to front, and three times back to back, and the soles of your feet haven't been stained with a single drop of water, and you haven't gotten wet at all, and at this time when you probe your head and look at the middle of the lake. You will then see the yellow moon in the center of the lake disappear and turn into a single set of yellow tables and chairs."

"And in the middle of that table would be a set of papers." Bai Liu looks up, "That's the entrance exam papers from that year."

"GCSE Lake can predict the year's GCSE papers."

"At this time you have to jump down to the lake, dive to the bottom of the lake, go to do that set of high school papers, the score you finish will be your high school score of that year, if you don't jump down, soon this set of tables and chairs will turn into the moon again and dissipate under the water."

Mu Sicheng was dumbfounded, "This, isn't this cheating, cheating?!"

"You could say that." Bai Liu's tone was emotionless, "But that's supposedly the reason why Qiao Mu Private High School's promotion rate was once so high, and why so many rich and powerful people went to great lengths to send their students here, up the mountain, too."

"It's because of the legend of that high school lake."